Underbelly

After getting stuck on the story at dreaming method, I gave up out of frustration and went to another site. I chose "Underbelly" by Christine Wilks from her site crissxross.net.It's made in flash and the main story is about a sculptor being commissioned to create a sculpture at the site of a closed colliery in England and is overlapped with snippets of different voices and computer graphics/drawings.

It begins with a timeline of mining in the UK dating back to the 19th century. Blocks of text appear clockwise around an image of a mine.

The reader then moves the cursor over the blinking flashlights and a video comes up of a woman tapping on a statue talking, "you start with a block and you cut away to reveal the finished form."

You can roll over the different images or text to hear real accounts of women's lives as miners or phrases of poetry. If you move over all, they overlap.

primitive creatures between rocks pressed. bad timing. it's all a matter of timing. smothered. smothered. this passion is prehistoric. let time and pressure fossilize - fuse.

Voice of woman talking about getting beaten, chain tied to belt around waist, pulling cart uphill.

Talk turns to babies and the women's yearning for them.

Then you have to decide the sculpturer's fate by choosing to have a baby, letting it be fate, or not choosing to have a baby by clicking on one of the images below.

You're taken to this wheel of babies.

Then depending on what you choose and how you spin, there are several different outcomes: